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  1. Since we're not given the board level change, we don't know. I can think of a couple of possibilities. If the clock outputs are loaded too heavily, the chip's output transistors might be overheating, or aluminum traces overheating and failing by migration. If there's capacitive coupling between pins, there might be an over-voltage situation. Either might be fixed by external circuit changes.

  2. Re:Not a good look on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    An agency that no longer exists is an agency that can no longer abuse its power.

  3. Re: This is not surprising on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    She used her political power (and I'll presume, dirt she had on other people in power) to quash and subvert investigations. Obama's corrupt Justice Department was never going to indict her no matter how obvious the evidence because Obama himself would have been implicated.

    That she made unbelievable gains on futures contracts is documented, that it was used for bribery is obvious but unprovable. Also, there's now a statute of limitations problem with prosecuting that.

    The influence peddling evidenced by outrageous speaking fees is also obvious, but nobody's going to squeal. Think omerta.

    And then, there's Benghazi. Clear case of treason, and no Democrat is interested.

  4. Re:Tradition on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    BASIC is a reasonable starting point, but you don't want to stay there long.

    For a beginner, you want a forgiving language, something that will almost always run and not be picky about data types. Something that doesn't require "includes" and linking instructions to the compiler. Stay away from old, primitive languages with weird formatting requirements, like FORTRAN. Interpreted languages are good, but I don't recommend shell scripts because the documentation is usually inadequate..

    Once you've got the hang of making a program run and having it do what you want it to, leave BASIC behind because it teaches bad habits and has serious limitations.

    If your mindset is engineering, C is a reasonable choice. Otherwise, try to find a language that fits what you're trying to do and doesn't have peculiarities that make you angry.

  5. Re:"...which begs the question..." on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Nauseous has 2 meanings, queasy and nauseating. For clarity's sake, use nauseating in preference to nauseous when appropriate.

    Ultimate: final, farthest, extreme, fundamental, essential, beyond which there is no other. In the context of progress, ultimate may not only be greatest, but the greatest possible

    Comprise: To consist of or take in; contain; include; embrace. [Funk & Wagnalls]. I'm still a bit confused on proper usage.

    Thanks for peruse and nonplussed; you've enhanced my knowledge.

  6. Re:"...which begs the question..." on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You, and others, are attempting to equate the incorrect use of "begs the question" with "raises the question". In common use "that begs the question" usually is intended to mean "that fails to raise the question."

  7. Re: So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    refusing to do their sworn duty

    Like Obama and his cabinet? Particularly his Attorneys General, who refused to prosecute anyone who was black.

  8. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You are thoroughly confused. War is a governmental activity, protest is outside of (and usually against) government.

  9. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    If the targets are purposefully selected, it's a lot more than just "violent protest." Criminal threatening, battery, racketeering, and a host of other crimes, both federal and state, are reasonable charges.

  10. Re:Why link your name to Armenian genocide anyhow? on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At least one pole says...

    The one between your legs, where your brain is.

  11. Re:lost land mass or lost continent? on Scientists Discover Evidence of a 'Lost Continent' Under the Indian Ocean (earthsky.org) · · Score: 2

    It was a poor society. They couldn't afford diamonds, only cubic zirconia.

  12. Re:Pope John Paul II - Burning in HELL on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Care About Tech Conferences? · · Score: 1

    for the Bible condemns all of us as guilty, dirty, rotten, hell-deserving sinners

    That is why any person who doesn't want to spend his life suffering the horrors of unearned guilt rejects Christianity from the outset. "Proud" and "free" belong together; stand on your own outside the prison of religion.

  13. Re: I don't on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Care About Tech Conferences? · · Score: 2

    A few of the booth babes are arrogant and resentful of the fact that men find them physically attractive.

  14. Re:I don't on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Care About Tech Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Conventions provide surprises. Products you didn't know existed that can be used in your work. Hands-on exposure to competitor's products, so you can see what they've done wrong and improve on what they've done right. Get a feel for what other people think of your company's products. A creative boost. A vacation-like day that's still focused on technology.

  15. And the only coke Clinton had was in her nose.

  16. Re:Kid's best interest. on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: 2

    In the rich world that is necessarily intertwined with widespread automated labor, there is always work available for people willing to provide skilled craft and artwork.

    The rich people who want, like Scrooge McDuck, to do nothing but swim in their money bin, are rare to the point of fiction. The real rich want to spend their money on quality goods and services. If they have the machines that make goods and do services, eventually they will have all those that can be made by machines, and will want human-made things. Life goes on.

    Some of the rich also want challenges, and some want to elevate mankind in general. They also will figure out how to create jobs for those who would otherwise be unemployed.

  17. when adding Quantum Computing to the K-12 curriculum

    It sounds like serious technological confusion, that you think Quantum Computing would be a subject separate from computing when taught in a K-12 context.

    High speed typing is of minor usefulness in a job whose major requirement is creative thinking.

  18. Re:Babel, tower of (or was it Hanoi?) on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    English is one of a small group of languages that most technical advances are expressed in. You won't get that in Swahili or Navaho. English is the language of freedom.

  19. Re:GOTO is dead.We live in COMEFROM age. on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical GUI code is write-only. They are mostly indecipherable messes, although this may be due to the way libraries like Gtk and Qt are put together.

    Anyway, "comefrom" is useful for GUI and interrupt handling, but is inapplicable to the areas where the real work is done - any sort of complicated math or data analysis. There, goto can be useful.

    Object Orientation is related to goto the same way balloons are related to spiders - that is, there's no relation.

  20. Re:Kernels should only be in assembler on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Carry flag. Sign flag. Overflow flag. Zero flag. Fucking flag.
    if(fucking) goto fubar;

  21. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    I designed an audio DSP processor that had to always run exactly 1024 instructions and then start again at instruction number 0. There was no jump instruction. Instead, when conditional operation was required, the next N instructions could be prohibited from writing or setting condition codes.

  22. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Nested code is for people who can't understand goto.

  23. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    There are situations where multiple if(a) free(a); results in cleaner and more compact source code.

  24. Now, because on 16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It takes a while to falsify the data.

  25. Re:They want to be a welfare state? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Social rights" is an oxymoron.